Appendix 2

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APPENDIX 2

LEXSEE 1963 TRADE CAS. (CCH) P 70,890

United States v. General Dynamics Corp. et al.

Civil Action No. 61 C 615.

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

1963 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9933; 1963 Trade Cas. (CCH) P70,890

October 17, 1963.

OPINIONBY: [*1]

MISHLER

OPINION:

Final Judgment

MISHLER, Judge: Plaintiff. United States of America, having filed its complaint herein on August 22, 1961, and defendant General Dynamics Corporation (hereinafter called General Dynamics) having appeared and filed its answer denying the substantive allegations of such complaint, and plaintiff and General Dynamics, by their respective attorneys, having consented to the making and entry of this Final Judgment, and without trial or adjudication of any issue of fact or law herein;

Now, therefore, before any testimony has been taken and without trial or adjudication of any issue of fact or law herein and upon the consent of plaintiff and General Dynamics, it is hereby

Ordered, adjudged and decreed as follows:

This Court has jurisdiction of the subject matter hereof and of the parties consenting hereto. The complaint states claims for relief against General Dynamics under Section 1 of the Act of Congress of July 2, 1890, entitled " An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies," commonly known as the Sherman Act, as amended, and under Section 3 of the Act of Congress of October 15, 1914, entitled "An act to supplement [*2] existing laws against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes," commonly known as the Clayton Act, as amended.

As used in this Final Judgment;

(A) "General Dynamics" shall mean defendant General Dynamics Corporation, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with offices in New York, New York;

(B) "Person" shall mean any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, governmental agency or other legal or business entity,

(C) "Carbon Dioxide" shall mean carbon dioxide in solid form (dry ice), in liquid form (low pressure bulk carbon dioxide) or in gaseous fonn (carbon dioxide cylinder gas);

(D) "Distributor* shall mean any Person who purchases and resells Carbon Dioxide for its own account;

(E)"Storage Tanks and Related Equipment" shall mean equipment (other than cylinders) designed and used for the conversion of dry ice to, or for the storage of, liquid carbon dioxide on the premises of customers, and any circulating pumps, cylinder filling pumps and process lines or piping to the point or points of consumption which are connected to or used in conjunction therewith.

III

The provisions of this [*3] Final Judgment applicable to General Dynamics shall apply also to its officers, directors, agents, servants, employees, subsidiaries, successors and assigns, and to all Persons in active concert or participation with General Dynamics who shall have received actual notice of this Fmal Judgment by personal service or otherwise.

General Dynamics is:

(A) Enjoined and restrained from requiring Distributors to resell Carbon Dioxide at prices set or determined by General Dynamics;

(B) Enjoined and restrained from restricting or attempting to restrict in any manner

(1) the quantity of Carbon Dioxide which any Person may manufacture or produce, or

(2) the quantity of Carbon Dioxide which any Penon may sell to any other Pemm over aod above what is sold to General Dynamics;

(C) Ordered and directed, within sixty (60) days following the date of the entry of this Final Judgment, to notify, in writing, all Persons selling Carbon Dioxide to General Dynamics, that any provision in any existing contract, agreement or understanding between General Dynamics and any such Person which restricts or attempts to restrict the sale of Carbon Dioxide not purchased by General Dynamics, is [*4] prohibited by Court order and such provision or restriction will not be enforced in any manner by General Dynamics;

(D) Enjoined and restrained from promulgating, exacting or maintaining in any part of the United States a price or prices for the sale of Carbon Dioxide which is lower than the price or prices exacted by General Dynamics elsewhere in the United States for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminating a competitor in such part of the United States.

General Dynamics is ordered and directed, individually and independently, to issue new price schedules for Carbon Dioxide, based upon an independent review, at 3:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time on the sixtieth (60th) day following the effective date of this Section V, such schedules to become effective thirty (30) days thereafter, provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent General Dynamics from deviating from, modifying or otherwise changing the price or price schedules issued thereunder after the publication date thereof.

General Dynamics is:

(A) Ordered and directed, upon the request of any user of Carbon Dioxide, not including any Distributor, manufacturer, supplier or seller of Carbon Dioxide, [*5] whether or not such user purchases Carbon Dioxide from General Dynamics, at the option of such user (a) to sell new or used Storage Tanks and Related Equipment or (b) to lease for such period or periods as General Dynamics shall from time to time determine, new or used Storage Tanks and Related Equipment, to such user on such nondiscriminatory terms and conditions as may be offered by General Dynamics to other users of Carbon Dioxide in the same area, other than competitors of General Dynamics, and such terms and conditions are to be set forth in a schedule or schedules to be published and circulated among purchasers of General Dynamics' liquid Carbon Dioxide and dry ice used in converters not later than sixty (60) days following the effective date of this subsection (A); provided, however, that such schedule or schedules need not be circulated among such purchasers of General Dynamics' liquid Carbon Dioxide and dry ice used in conveners or other users of liquid Carbon Dioxide and dry ice used in converters or Storage Tanks and Related Equipment already under contract on the effective date of this subsection (A) until sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of such contracts or, in [*6] the case of such purchasers under contracts expiring more than one (1) year following the effective date of this Section VI, until sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of such one (1) year period: and provide further that General Dynamics has Storage Tanks and Related Equipment available in the area and that such user meets the necessary credit requirements or other usual business requirements of General Dynamics with respect to such user's financial responsibility to purchase or lease Storage Tanks and Related Equipment; and provided further that nothing in mis subsection shall prevent General Dynamics from deviating from such schedule or schedules for the purpose of meeting the equally low price or terms or conditions of a competitor or at any time from modifying or otherwise changing such schedule or schedules;

(B) Enjoined and restrained from offering to sell or lease, or selling or leasing, Storage Tanks and Related Equipment to any Person conditioned upon an agreement or understanding that such Person shall purchase Carbon Dioxide from General Dynamics or any source designated by General Dynamics;

(C) Enjoined and restrained from offering to sell, or selling Carbon [*7] Dioxide to any Person conditioned upon an agreement or understanding that such Person buy or lease any Storage Tanks and Related Equipment from General Dynamics or any source designated by General Dynamics;

(D) Enjoined and restrained from refusing to sell upon request Carbon Dioxide to a Person having a Storage Tank and Related Equipment not belonging to General Dynamics; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall require the sale of Carbon Dioxide or the filling of Storage Tanks when any legal business reason exists for such refusal or when such sale is in violation of the laws or regulations of any State or Federal Government, or in violation of any contract between such Person and any seller of Carbon Dioxide;

(E)Ordered and directed at the time of any lease of Storage Tanks and Related Equipment, to include in the lease agreement a clause which provides in effect that the owner of the Storage Tanks and Related Equipment specifically consents to the installation in, or filling of, such Storage Tanks and Related Equipment with Carbon Dioxide manufactured by any other Person, subject to the provisions of Section VII (B); provided, however, that such consent shall [*8] not apply to a lessee of such Storage Tanks and Related Equipment whenever such lessee is under a contract to purchase his requirements of Carbon Dioxide from General Dynamics;

(F) Enjoined and restrained from entering into any contract for the sale of Carbon Dioxide to any Person which has the effect of obligating such Person to purchase its requirements of Carbon Dioxide from General Dynamics for a period of more than one (1) year, provided, however, that this subsection (F) shall not prevent the inclusion in any contract for the sale of Carbon Dioxide of a provision to the effect that such contract will be renewed for successive one-year periods unless the purchaser of such Carbon Dioxide shall notify General Dynamics, within a reasonable time prior to the expiration of such contract or of any such period, of an intention to terminate such contract; and provided further in such an event that such purchaser also is given in die contract the option, at the time of entering into such contract, to have a provision to the effect that the contract shall be renewed only upon the exchange of notices between the parties expressing an intention to renew the contract, in lieu of the aforesaid [*9] renewal provision;

(G) Ordered antf directed:

(1) Not to renew or extend any existing contract or agreement with any purchaser of Carbon Dioxide which is not consistent with the provisions of this Section VI, and to cancel or otherwise terminate any existing agreement or contract with any purchaser of Carbon Dioxide which is not consistent with the provisions of this Section VI, whenever General Dynamics has the right to do so;

(2) To notify, in writing, not later than sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of one (1) year following the effective date of this Section VI, each Person holding a contract having a time period or duration of more than one year to run from the date following the effective data of this Section VI that General Dynamics will waive any obligation by such Person to purchase Carbon Dioxide from General Dynamics in excess of one (1) year from the first annual anniverssary date of such contract alter the date of entry of this Final Judgment, upon condition, where applicable, that such Person at the end of such period either returns to GeneralDynamics the Storage Tank and Related Equipment of General Dynamics in the possession of such Person, or purchases or [*10] leases such Storage Tank and Related Equipment from General Dynamics.

VII

(A) Sections VI(A),(B),(C) and (E) shall have no application to transactions with Persons who are Distributors or agents of General Dynamics, and nothing contained therein shall require General Dynamics to sell or lease Storage Tanks and Related Equipment to other Persons engaged in the sale or distribution of Carbon Dioxide on terms and conditions that General Dynamics offers Storage Tanks and Related Equipment to its own Distributors or agents.

(B) Nothing contained in Section VI shall be deemed to invalidate or prohibit provisions in leasing agreements with respect to Storage Tanks and Related Equipment to the effect that General Dynamics is to be indemnified or made harmless by the lessee of Storage Tanks and Related Equipment from any damages to the Storage Tanks and Related Equipment, and from any consequential damages sustained by General Dynamics, resulting directly or indirectly from the use in such Storage Tanks and Related Equipment of Carbon Dioxide obtained from sources other than General Dynamics which is not of like grade or quality to that of General Dynamics. General Dynamics may provide [*11] that the burden of proving the question of like grade and quality shall be on the lessee.

VIII

Sections IV(F) and VIII(C) of the Final Judgment entered on March 7, 1952, in this Court in the case of United States v. The Liquid Carbonic Corporation, et al., Civil No. 9179, as applicable to General Dynamics, are hereby superseded and replaced by the provisions in this Final Judgment, and Section VII(D)(2) of the aforesaid Final Judgment is modified to permit a requirements contract for Carbon Dioxide with any jobber or Distributor which is not inconsistent with the provisions of Section VI(F) of this Final Judgment, but all other provisions of such Final Judgment shall remain hi full force and effect in accordance with their terms.

This Final Judgment shall be construed as relating only to commerce within the United States, its territories and possessions.

For the purpose of securing compliance with this Final Judgment, duly authorized representatives of the Department of Justice shall, on written request by the Attorney General or the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, and on reasonable notice to General Dynamics, be permitted, subject [*12] to any legally recognized privilege:

(A) Reasonable access during office hours, to all the books, ledgers, accounts, correspondence, memoranda and other records and documents in the possession or under the control of General Dynamics relating to any of the matters covered in this Final Judgment;

(B) Subject to the reasonable convenience of General Dynamics and without restraint or interference from General Dynamics, to conduct interviews regarding any such matters with officers and employees of General Dynamics, who may have counsel present.

Upon the written request of the Attorney General, or the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, General Dynamics shall submit such written reports with respect to any of the matters covered in this Final Judgment as from time to time may be reasonably necessary for the enforcement of this Final Judgment.

No information obtained by the means provided in this Section X shall be divulged by any representatives of the Department of Justice to duly authorized representative of the Bxecutive Branch of plaintiff except in the course of legal proceeding to which the United States is a party for [*13] the purpose of securing compliance with this Final Judgment or as otherwise required by law.

The provisions of Sections V and VI of this Final Judgment shall not become effective until the entry of Final Judgments in this action, not subject to rather review, against the remaining defendants herein.

XII

Jurisdiction is retained for the purpose of enabling any party consenting to this Final Judgment to apply to this Court at any time for such further orders and directions as may be necessary or appropriate for the construction or carrying out of this Final Judgment, for the modification or termination of any of the provisions herein, for the enforcement of compliance therewith and the punishment of violations thereof.

LEXSEE 1963 TRADE CAS. (CCH) P70,891

United States v. General Dynamics Corporation, Air Reduction Company, Inc.
(Chemetron Corporation) and Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation.

Civil Action No. 61 C 615.

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

1963 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 7355; 1963 Trade Cas. (CCH) P70,891

October 17, 1963.

OPIN1ONBY: [*1]

MISHLER

OPINION:

Final Judgment

MISHLER, Judge: Plaintiff, United States of America, having filed its complaint herein on August 22, 1961, and the defendant Chemetron Corporation having appeared and filed its answer denying the substantive allegations of such complaint, and plaintiff and said defendants by their respective attorneys, having consented to the making and entry of this Final Judgment, and without trial or adjudication of any issue of fact or law herein;

Now, therefore, before any testimony has been taken and without trial or adjudication of any issue of fact or law herein and based upon the consent of plaintiff and the said defendant, it is hereby

Ordered, adjudged and decreed as follows:

This Court has jurisdiction of the subject matter hereof and of the parties consenting hereto. The complaint states claims for relief against the defendant Chemetron Corporation under section 1 of the Act of Congress of July 2, 1890, entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies", commonly known as the Sherman Act, as amended, and under Section 3 of the Act of Congress of October 15, 1914, entitled "An Act to supplement existing laws [*21] against unlawful restraints and monopolies, and for other purposes", commonly known as the Clayton Act, as amended.

As used in this Final Judgment:

(A) "Chemetron" shall mean the defendant Chemetron Corporation, a corporation organized and existmg under the laws of the State of Delaware whn its principal place of business in Chicago, Illinois;

(B) "Person" shall mean any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, governmental agency or other legal or business entity;

(C) "Carbon Dioxide" shall mean carbon dioxide in solid form (dry iceX in liquid form (low pressure bulk carbon dioxide), or in gaseous form (carbon dioxide cylinder gas);

(D) "Distributor" shall mean any person who purchases and resells Carbon Dioxide for its own account;

(E) "Storage Tanks and Related Equipment" shall mean equipment (other than cylinders) designed and used for the conversion of dry ice to, or storage of, liquid carbon dioxide on the premises of customers, any circulating pumps, cylinder filling pumps and process lines or piping to the point or points of consumption which are connected to or used in conjunction therewith.

III

The provisions of this Final Judgment [*3] applicable to defendant Chemetron shall apply also to its officers, directors, agents, servants, employees, subsidiaries, successors and assigns, and to all Persons in active concert or participation with such defendant who shall have received actual notice of this Final Judgment by personal service or otherwise,

Defendant Chemetron is:

(A) Enjoined and restrained from entering into, adhering to, or claiming any rights under any combination, conspiracy, contract, agreement, understanding, plan or program which has the purpose or effect of:

(1) Allocating or dividing customers, territories, markets or fields for the manufacture, slae or distribution of carbon dioxide;

(2) Determining, fixing, maintaining, or adhering to prices, price lists, differentials, discounts, or other terms or conditions for the sale or distribution of carbon dioxide to third persons; provided that Section IV(A) shall have no application to transactions with persons who are agents of each defendant.

(B) Enjoined and restrained from requiring distributors to resell carbon dioxide at prices set or determined by said defendant;

(1) The quantity of carbon dioxide which any Person may manufacture or produce; or

(2) The quantity of carbon dioxide which any person may sell to any other person over and above what is sold to such defendant.

(D) Ordered and directed within sixty (60) days following the date of the entry of this Final Judgment, to notify, in writing, all persons selling carbon dioxide to said defendant, that any provision in any existing contracts, agreements, or understandings between the defendant and such persons, which restricts or attempts to restrict the sale of carbon dioxide not purchased by said defendant, is prohibited by Court order and such provision or restriction will not be enforced in any manner by the said defendant;

(E) Enjoined and restrained from promulgating, exacting or maintaining in any part of the United States a price or prices for the sale of carbon dioxide which is lower than the price or prices exacted by said defendant elsewhere in the United States for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminating a competitor in such part of the United States.

Defendant Chemetron is ordered and directed, individually and independently, to issue [*5] new price schedules for carbon dioxide, based upon an independent review, at 3:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time on the sixtieth (60th) day following the effective date of this Section V, schedules to become effective thirty (30) days thereafter, provided however nothing herein shall prevent said defendant from deviating from, modifying or otherwise changing the prices or price lication date thereof, schedules issued thereunder after the publication date thereof.

Defendant Chemetron is:

(A) Ordered and directed, upon the request of any user of carbon dioxide, not including any distributor, manufacturer, supplier or seller of carbon dioxide, whether or not such user purchases carbon dioxide from Chemetron, at the option of such user (a) to sell new or used storage tanks and related equipment or (b) to lease for such period or periods as Chemetron shall from time to time determine, new or used storage tanks and related equipment, to such user on such noodlscriminatory terms and conditions as may be offered by Chemetron to other users of carbon dioxide in the same area, other than competitors of Chemetron, and such terms and conditions are to be set forth in a schedule or schedules [*6] to be published and circulated among purchasers of Chemetron's liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice used to converters not later than sixty (60) days following the effective date of this subsection (A); provided, however, that such schedule or schedules need not be circulated among such purchasers of Chemetron's liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice used in converters or other users of liquid carbon dioxide and dry ice used in converters or storage tanks and related equipment already under contract on the effective date of this subsection (A) until sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of such contracts or, in the case of such purchasers under contracts expiring more than one (1) year following the effective date of this Section VI, until sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of such one (1) year period; and provided further that Chemetron has storage tanks and related equipment available in the area and that such user meets the necessary credit requirements or other usual business requirements of Chemetron with respect to such user's financial responsibility to purchase or lease storage tanks and related equipment; and provided further that nothing in this subsection shall prevent Chemetron [*7] from deviating from such schedule or schedules for the purpose of meeting the equally low price or terms or conditions of a competitor or at any time from modifying or otherwise changing such schedule or schedules;

(B) Enjoined and restrained from offering to sell or lease or selling or leasing, storage tanks and related equipment to any person conditioned upon an agreement understanding that such person shall purchase carbon dioxide from Chemetron or any source designated by such defendant;

(C) Enjoined and restrained from offering to sell, or selling, carbon dioxide to airy person conditioned upon an agreement or understanding that such person buy or lease any storage tanks and related equipment from Chemetron or any source designated by such defendant;

(D) Enjoined and restrained from refusing to sell upon request carbon dioxide to a person having a storage tank and related equipment not belonging to Chemetron; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall require the sale of carbon dioxide for the filling of storage tanks when any legal business reason exists for such refusal or when such sale is in violation of the laws or regulations of any State or Federal [*8] Government, or in violation of any contract between such person and any seller of carbon dioxide;

(E) Ordered and directed at the time of any lease of storage tanks and related equipment, to include in the lease agreement a clause which provides in effect that the owner of the storage tanks and related equipment specifically consents to the installation in, or filling of, said storage tanks and related equipment with carbon dioxide manufactured by any other person, subject to the provisions of Section VII(B); provided, however, that such consent shall not apply to a lessee of such storage tanks and related equipment whenever such lessee is under contract to purchase his requirements of carbon dioxide from Chemetron;

(F) Enjoined and restrained from entering into any contract for the sale of carbon dioxide to any person which has the effect of obligating such person to purchase its requirements of carbon dioxide from Chemetron for period of more than one (1) yean provided, however, that this subsection (F) shall not prevent the inclusion in any contract for the sale of carbon dioxide of a provision to the effect that such contract will be renewed for successive one-year periods [*9] unless the purchaser of such carbon dioxide shall notify Chemetron, within a reasonable time prior to the expiration of such contract or of any such period, of an intention to terminate such contract; and provided further in such an event that such purchaser also is given in the contract the option, at the time of entering into such contract, to have a provision to the effect that the contract shall be renewed only upon the exchange of notices between the parties expressing an intention to renew the contract, in lieu of the aforesaid renewal provision;

(G) Ordered and directed:

(1) Not to renew or extend any existing contract or agreement with any purchaser of carbon dioxide which is not consistent with the provisions of this Section VI, and to cancel or otherwise terminate any existing agreement or contract with any purchaser of carbon dioxide which is not consistent with the provisions of this Section VI, whenever Chemetron has the right to do so;

(2) To notify, in writing, not later than sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of one (1) year following the effective date of this Section VI, each person holding a contract having a time period or duration of more than one year [*10] to run from the date following the effective date of this Section VI that Chemetron will waive any obligation by such person to purchase carbon dioxide from Chemetron in excess of one (1) year from the first annual anniversary date of such contract after the date of entry of this Final Judgment, upon condition, where applicable, that such person at the end of such period either returns to Chemetron the storage tank and related equipment of Chemetron in the possession of such person, or purchases or leases such storage tank and equipment from Chemetron.

VII

(A) Section VI(A), (B), (C) and (E) shall have no application to transactions with persons who are distributors or agents of Chemetron, and nothing contained therein shall require such defendant to sell or lease storage tanks and related equipment to other persons engaged in the sale or distribution of carbon dioxide on terms and conditions that such defendant offers storage tanks and related equipment to its own distributors or agents.

(B) Nothing contained in Section VI shall be deemed to invalidate or prohibit provisions in leasing agreements with respect to storage tanks and related equipment to the effect that Chemetron [*11] is to be indemnified or made harmless by the lessee of storage tanks and related equipment from any damages to the storage tanks and related equipment, and from any consequential damages sustained by said defendant resulting directly or indirectly from the use in such storage tanks and related equipment of carbon dioxide obtained from sources other than the defendant leasing such storage tanks and related equipment, which is not of like grade or quality to that of such defendant. Chemetron may provide that the burden of proving the question of like grade and quality shall be on the lessee.

VIII

This Final Judgment shall be construed as relating only to commerce within the United States, its territories and possessions.

For the purpose of securing compliance with this Final Judgment, duly authorized representatives of the Department of Justice shall, on written request by the Attorney General or the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, and on reasonable notice to defendant Chemetron at its principal office, be permitted, subject to any legally recognized privilege:

(A) Reasonable access during office hours, to all the memoranda and other records and documents in the possession or under the control of such defendant relating to any of the matters coveted in this Final Judgment; and

(B) Subject to the reasonable convenience of such defendant and without restraint or interference from such defendant to conduct interview regarding any such matters with officers and employees of such defendant, who may have counsel present.

Upon the written request of the Attorney General, or the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, such defendant shall submit such written reports with respect to any of the matters coveted in this Final Judgment as from time to time may be reasonably necessary for the enforcement of this Final Judgment.

No information obtained by the means provided in this Section IX shall be divulged by any representatives of the Department of Justice to any person other than a duly authorized representative of the Executive Branch of plaintiff except in the course of legal proceedings to which the United States is a party for the purpoce of securing compliance with this Final Judgment or as otherwise required by law.

The provisions of Sections [*13] V and VI of this Final Judgment shall not become effectuve until the entry of Final Judgments in this action, not subject to further review, against the remaining defendants herein.

LEXSEE 1963 TRADE CAS. (CCH) P70,892

United States v. General Dynamics Corporation; Air Reduction Company, Inc.;
Chemetron Corporation; and (Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation).

Civil Action No. 61 C 615.

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

1963 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9934; 1963 Trade Cas. (CCH) P70,892

October 17, 1963.

OPINIONBY: [*1]

MISHLER

OPINION:

Final Judgment

MISHLER, Judge: Plaintiff, United States of America, having filed its complaint herein on August 22, 1961, and defendant Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation (hereinafter called Olin) having appeared and filed its answer denying the substantive allegations of such comptaint, and plaintiff and Olin, by their respective attorneys, having contented to the making and entry of this Final Judgment, and without trial or adjudication of any issue offset, or law herein;

Now, therefore, before any testimony has been taken and without trial or adjudication of any issue of fact or law herein and upon the consent of plaintiff and Olin, is hereby

Ordered, adjudged and decreed as follows:

This Court has jurisdiction of the subject matter hereof and of the parties consenting hereto. The complaint states claims for relief against Olin under Section 1 of the Act of Congress of July 2, 1890, entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies", commonly known as the Sherman Act, as amended.

As used in this Final Judgment:

(A) "Olin" shall mean defendant Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation, a corporation organized [*2] and existing under the laws of the Commonwealth of Virginia, with offices in New York, New York;

(B) "Person" shall mean any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, governmental agency or other legal or business entity;

(C) "Carbon Dioxide" shall mean carbon dioxide in solid from (dry ice), in liquid form (low pressure bulk carbon dioxide) or in gaseous form (carbon dioxide cylinder gas):

(D) "Distributor" shall mean any Person who purchases and resells Carbon Dioxide for its own account;

(E) "Storage Tanks and Related Equipment" shall mean equipment (other than cylinders) designed and used for the conversion of dry ice to, or for the storage of, liquid carbon dioxide on the premises of customers, and any circulating pumps, cylinder filling pumps and process lines or piping to the point or points of consumption which are connected to or used in conjunction therewith.

III

The provisions of this Final Judgment applicable to Olin shall apply also to its officers, directors, agents, servants, employees, subsidiaries, successors and assigns, and to all Persons in active concert or participation with Olin who shall have received actual notice of this Final Judgment [*3] by personal service or otherwise.

Olin is:

(1) allocating or dividing customers, territories, markets or fields for the manufacture, sale or distribution of Carbon Dioxide;

(2) determining, fixing, maintaining or adhering to prices, price lists, differentials, discounts, or other terms or conditions for the sale or distribution of Carbon Dioxide to third persons; provided that Section IV(A) shall have no application to transactions with Persons who are agents of Olin.

(B) Enjoined and restrained from requiring Distributors to resell Carbon Dioxide at prices set or determined by Olin;

(1) the quantity of Carbon Dioxide which any Person may manufacture or produce; or

(2) the quantity of Carbon Dioxide which any Person may sell to any other Person over and above what is sold to Olin.

(D) Ordered and directed within sixty (60) days following the date of the entry of this Final [*4] Judgment, to notify, in writing, all Persons selling Carbon Dioxide to Olin, that any provision in any existing contracts, agreements, or understandings between Olin and such Persons, which restricts or attempts to restrict the sale of Carbon Dioxide not purchased by Olin, is prohibited by Court order and such provision or restriction will not be enforced in any manner by Olin;

(E) Enjoined and restrained from promulgating, exacting or maintaining in any part of the United States a price or prices for the sale of Carbon Dioxide, which is lower than the price or prices exacted by Olin elsewhere in the United States for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminating a competitor in such part of the United States.

Olin is ordered and directed, individually and independently, to issue new price schedules for Carbon Dioxide, based upon an independent review, at 3:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time on the sixtieth (60th) day following the effective date of this Section V, such schedules to become effective thirty (30) days thereafter, provided, however, that nothing herein shall prevent Olin from deviating from, modifying or otherwise changing the prices or price schedules issued [*5] thereunder after the publication date thereof.

Olin is:

(A) Ordered and directed, upon the request of any user of Carbon Dioxide, not including any Distributor, manufacturer, supplier or seller of Carbon Dioxide, whether or not such user purchases Carbon Dioxide from Olin, at the option of such user (a) to sell new or used Storage Tanks and Related Equipment or (b) to lease for such period or periods as Olin shall from time to time determine, new or used Storage Tanks and Related Equipment, to such user on such nondiscriminatory terms and conditions as may be offered by Olin to other users of Carbon Dioxide in the same area, other than competitors of Olin, and such terms and conditions are to be set forth in a schedule or schedules to be published and circulated among purchasers of Otto's liquid Carbon Dioxide and dry ice used in converters not later than sixty (60) days following the effective date of this subsection (A); provided, however, that such schedule or schedules need not be circulated among such purchasers of Olin's liquid Carbon Dioxide and dry ice used in converters or other users of liquid Carbon Dioxide and dry ice used in converters or Storage Tanks and Related [*6] Equipment already under contract on the effective date of this subsection (A) until sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of such contracts or, in the case of such purchasers under contracts expiring more than one (1) year following the effective date of this Section VI, until sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of such one (1) year period; and provided further that Olin has Storage Tanks and Related Equipment available in the area and that such user meets the necessary credit requirements or other usual business requirements of Olin with respect to such user's financial responsibility to purchase or lease Storage Tanks and Related Equipment; and provided further that nothing in this subsection shall prevent Olin from deviating from such schedule or schedules for the purpose of meeting the equally low price or terms or conditions of a competitor or at any time from modifying or otherwise changing such schedule or schedules;

(C) Enjoined and restrained from offering to sell, or selling, Carbon Dioxide to any Person conditioned upon an agreement or understanding that such Person buy or lease any Storage Tanks and Related Equipment from Olin or any source designated by Olin;

(D) Enjoined and restrained from refusing to sell upon request Carbon Dioxide to a Person having a Storage Tank and Related Equipment not belonging to Olin; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall require the sale of Carbon Dioxide or the filling of Storage Tanks when any legal business reason exists for such refusal or when such sale is in violation of the laws or regulations of any State or Federal Government, or in violation of any contract between such Person and any seller of Carbon Dioxide;

(E) Ordered and directed at the time of any lease of Storage Tanks and Related Equipment, to include in the lease agreement a clause which provides in effect that the owner of the Storage Tanks and Related Equipment specifically consents to the installation in, or filling of, such Storage Tanks and Related Equipment with Carbon Dioxide manufactured by any other Person, subject to the provisions of Section VII(B); [*8] provided, however, that such content shall not apply to a lessee of such Storage links and Related Equipment whenever such lessee is under a contract to purchase his requirements of Carbon Dioxide from Olin;

(F) Enjoined and restrained from entering into any contract for the sale of Carbon Dioxide to any Person which has the effect of obligating such Person to purchase its requirements of Carbon Dioxide from Olin for a period of more than one (1) year, provided, however, that this subsection (F) shall not prevent the inclusion in any contract for the sale of Carbon Dioxide of a provision to the effect that such contract will be renewed for successive one-year periods unless the purchaser of such Carbon Dioxide shall notify Olin, within a reasonable time prior to the expiration of such contract or of any such period, of an intention to terminate such contract; and provided further in such an event that such purchaser also is given in the contract the option, at the time of entering into such contract, to have a provision to the effect that the contract shall be renewed only upon the exchange of notices between the parties expressing an intention to renew the contract, in lieu of the [*9] aforesaid renewal provision;

(G) Ordered and directed:

(2) To notify, in writing, not later than sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of one (1) year following the effective date of this Section VI, each Person holding a contract having a time period or duration of more than one year to run from the date following the effective date of this Section VI that Olin will waive any obligation by such Person to purchase Carbon Dioxide from Olin in excess of one (1) year from the first annual anniversary date of such contract after the date of entry of this Final Judgment, upon condition, where applicable, that such Person at the end of such period either returns to Oiln the Storage Tank and Related Equipment of Olin the possession of such Person, or purchases or leases such Storage Tank and Related Equipment from [*10] Olin.

VII

(A) Sections VI(A), (B), (C) and (E) shall have no application to transactions with Persons who are Distributors or agents of Olin, and nothing contained therein shall require Olin to sell or lease Storage Links and Related Equipment to other Persons engaged in the sale or distribution of Carbon Dioxide on terms and conditions that Olin offers Storage Tanks and Related Equipment to its own Distributors or agents.

(B) Nothing contained in Section VI shall be deemed to invalidate or prohibit provisions in leasing agreements with respect to Storage Tanks and Related Equipment to the effect that Olin is to be indemnified or made harmless by the lessee of Storage Tanks and Related Equipment from any damages to the Storage Tanks and Related Equipment, and from any consequential damages sustained by Olin, resulting directly or indirectly from the use in such Storage Tanks and Related Equipment of Carbon Dioxide obtained from sources other than Olin which is not of like grade or quality to that of Olin. Olin may provide that the burden of proving the question of like grade and quality shall be on the lessee.

VIII

This Final Judgment shall be construed as relating only [*11] to commerce within the United States, its territories md possessions.

For the purpose of securing compliance with this Final Judgment, duly authorized representatives of the Department of Justice shall, on written request by the Attorney General or the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division; and on reasonable notice to Olin, be permitted, subject to any legally recognized privilege:

(A) Reasonable access during office hours, to all the books, ledgers, accounts, correspondence, memoranda and other records and documents in the possession or under the control of Olin relating to any of the matters covered in this Final Judgment;

(B) Subject to the reasonable convenience of Olin and without restraint or interference from Olin, to conduct interviews regarding any such matters with officers and employees of Olin, who may have counsel present.

Upon written request of the Attorney General, or the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, Olin shall submit such written reports with respect to any of the matters covered in this Final Judgment as from time to time may be reasonably necessary for the enforcement of this Final Judgment [*12]

No information obtained by the means provided in this Section X shall be divulged by any representatives of the Department of Justice to any Person other than a duly authorized representative of the Executive Branch of plaintiff except in the course of legal proceedings to which the United States is a party for the purpose of securing compliance with this Final Judgment or as otherwise required by law.

The provisions of Sections V and VI of this Final Judgment shall not become effective until the entry of Final Judgments in this action, not subject to further review, against the remaining defendants herein.

LEXSEE 1963 TRADE CAS. (CCH) P70,919

United States v. General Dynamics Corporation (Air Reduction Company, Inc.),
Chemetron Corporation, and Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation.

Civil Action No. 61 C 615.

United States District Court for the Eastern District of New York.

1963 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 9950; 1963 Trade Cas. (CCH) P70,919

October 17, 1963.

OPINIONBY: [*1]

MISHLER

OPINION:

Final Judgment

MISHLER, District judge: Plaintiff, United States of America, having filed ita complaint herein on August 22, 1961, and the defendant Air Reduction Company, Incorporated, having appeared and field its answer denying the substantive allegations of such complaint, and plaintiff and said defendant, by their respective attorneys, having consented to the making and entry of this Final Judgment, and without trial or adjudication of any issue of fact or law herein;

Now, therefore, before any testimony has been taken and without trial or adjudication of any issue of fact or law herein and upon the consent of plaintiff and the said defendant, it is hereby

Ordered, adjudged and decreed as follows:

This Court has jurisdiction of the subject matter hereof and of the parties consenting hereto. The complaint states claims for relief against the defendant, Air Reduction Company, Incorporated, under Section 1 of the Act of Congress of July 2, 1890, entitled "An act to protect trade and commerce against unlawful restraints and monopolies", commonly known as the Sherman Act, as amended, and under Section 3 of the Act of Congress of October 15, 1914, entitled [*2] "An Act to supplement existing laws against unlawful restraintt and monopolies, and for other purposes", commonly known as the Clayton Act, as amended.

As used in this Final Judgment:

(A) "Airco" shall mean the defendant Air Reduction Company, Incorporated, a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York with its principal place of business in New York, New York;

(B) "Person" shall mean any individual, partnership, firm, association, corporation, governmental agency or other legal or business entity:

(C) "Carbon Dioxide" shall mean carbon dioxide in solid form (dry ice), in liquid form (low pressure bulk carbon dioxide), or in gaseous form (Carbon dioxide cylinder gas);

(D) "Distributor" shall mean any Person who purchases and resells Carbon Dioxide for its own account;

(E) "Storage Tanks and Related Equipment" shall mean equipment (other than cylinders) designed and used for the conversion of dry ice to or storage of liquid carbon dioxide on me premises of customers, and any circulating pumps, cylinder filling pumps and process lines or piping to the point or points of consumption which are connected to or used in conjunction therewith. [*3]

III

The provisions of this Final Judgment applicable to defendant Airco shall apply also to its officers, directors, agents, servants, employees, subsidiaries, successors and assigns, and to all Persons in active concert or participation with such defendant who shall have received actual notice of this Final Judgment by personal service or otherwise.

Defendant Airco is:

(A) Enjoined and restrained from requiring Distributors to resell Carbon Dioxide at prices set or determined by said defendant;

(B) Enjoined and restrained from restricting or attempting to restrict in any manner:

(1) The quantity of Carbon Dioxide which any Person may manufacture or produce; or

(2) The quantity of Carbon Dioxide which any Person may tell to any other Person over and above what is sold to such defendant;

(C) Ordered and directed within sixty (60) days following the date of the entry of this Final Judgment, to notify, in writing, all Persons selling Carbon Dioxide to said defendant, that any provision to any existing contracts, agreements, or understandings between the defendant and such Persons, which restricts or attempts to restrict the sale of Carbon Dioxide not purchased by [*4] said defendant, is prohibited by Court order and such provision or restriction will not be enforced in any manner by the said defendant;

(D) Enjoined and restrained from promulgating, exacting or maintaining in any part of the United States a price or prices for the sale of Carbon Dioxide, which is lower than the price or prices exacted by said defendant elsewhere in the United States, for the purpose of destroying competition or eliminating a competitor in such part of the United States.

Defendant Airco is ordered and directed, individually and independently, to issue new price schedules for Carbon Dioxide, based upon an independent review, at 3:00 P.M. Eastern Standard Time on the sixtieth (60th) day following the effective date of this Section V, said schedules to become effective thirty (30) days thereafter, provided that this shall not prevent said defendant from deviating from, modifying or otherwise changing the price schedules issued, thereunder after the publication date thereof.

Defendant Airco is

(A) Ordered and directed, upon the request of any user of Carbon Dioxide, not including any Distributor, manufacturer, supplier or seller of Carbon Dioxide, whether [*5] or not such user purchases Carbon Dioxide from defendant Airco, at the option of such user (a) to sell new or used Storage Tanks and Related Equipment or (b) to lease for such period or periods as said defendant shall from time to time determine, new or used Storage Tanks and Related Equipment, to such user on such nondiscriminatory terms and conditions as may be offered by defendant Airco to other usen of Carbon Dioxide in the same area, other than competitors of said defendant, and such terms and conditions are to be let forth in a schedule or schedules to be published and circulated among purchasers of defendant Airco's liquid Carbon Dioxide and dry ice used to converters not later than sixty (60) days following the effective date of this subsection (A); provided, however, that such schedule or schedules need not be circulated among such purchasers of defendant Airco's liquid Carbon Dioxide and dry ice used in converters or other users of liquid Carbon Dioxide and dry ice used in converters or Storage Tanks and Related Equipment already under contract on the effective date of this subsection (A) until (60) days prior to the expiration of such contracts or, in the case of such [*6] purchasers under contracts expiring more than one (1) year following the effective date of this Section VI, until sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of such one (1) year periods and provided further that defendant Airco has Storage Tanks and Related Equipment available in the area and that such user meets the necessary credit requirements or other usual business requirements of said defendant with respect to such user's financial responsibility to purchase or lease Storage Tanks and Related Equipment; and provided further that nothing in this subsection shall prevent defendant Airco from deviating from such schedule or schedules for the purpose of meeting the equally low price or terms or conditions of a competitor or at any time from modifying or otherwise changing such schedule or schedules;

(B) Enjoined and restrained from offering to sell or lease, or selling or leasing, Storage Tanks and Related Equipment to any Person conditioned upon an agreement or understanding that such Person shall purchase Carbon Dioxide from such defendant or any source designated by such defendant;

(C) Enjoined and restrained from offering to sell, or selling, Carbon Dioxide to any Person conditioned [*7] upon an agreement or understanding that such Person buy or lease any Storage Tanks and Related Equipment from such defendant or any source designated by such defendant;

(D) Enjoined and restrained from refusing to sell upon request Carbon Dioxide to a Person having a Storage Tank and Related Equipment not belonging to such defendant; provided, however, that nothing herein contained shall require the sale of Carbon Dioxide or the filling of Storage Tanks when any legal business reason exists for such refusal or when such sale is in violation of the laws or regulations of any State or Federal Government, or in violation of any contract between such Person and any seller of Carbon Dioxide;

(E) Ordered and directed at the time of any lease of Storage Tanks and Related Equipment, to include in the lease agreement a clause which provides in effect that the owner of the Storage Tanks and Related Equipment specifically consents to the installation in, or filling of, such Storage Tanks and Related Equipment with Carbon Dioxide manufactured by any other Person, subject to the provisions of Section VII(B); provided , however, that such consent shall not apply to a lessee of such Storage [*8] Tanks and Related Equipment whenever such lessee is under a contract to purchase his requirements of Carbon Dioxide from defendant Airco;

(F) Enjoined and restrained from entering into any contract for the sale of Carbon Dioxide to any Person which has the effect of obligating such Person to purchase itt requirements of Carbon Dioxide from said defendant for a period of more than one (1) year, provided, however, that this Subsection (F) shall not prevent the inclusion in any contract for the sale of Carbon Dioxide of a provision to the effect that such contract will be renewed from year to year unless the purchaser of such Carbon Dioxide shall notify the defendant, within a reasonable time prior to the expiration of such contract, of an intention to terminate such contract, and provided, further, in such an event, such purchaser also is given in the contract the option, at the time of the entering into of such contract, to have a provision to the effect that the contract shall be renewed only upon the exchange of notices between the patties expressing an intention to renew the contract. In lieu of the aforesaid renewal provision;

(G) Ordered and directed:

(1) Not to renew or [*9] extend any existing contract or agreement with any purchaser of Carbon Dioxide which is not consistent with the provisions of this Section VI, and to cancel or otherwise terminate any existing agreement or contract with any purchaser of Carbon Dioxide which is not consistent with the provisions of this Section VI, whenever defendant Airco has the right to do so;

(2) To notify, in writing, not later than sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of one (1) year following me effective date of this Section VI, each Person holding a contract having a time period or duration of more than one year to run from the date following the effective date of this Section VI that defendant Airco will waive any obligation by such Person to purchase Carbon Dioxide from Airco in excess of one (1) year from the first annual anniversary data of such contract after the date of entry of this Final Judgment upon condition, where applicable, that such Person at the end of such period either returns to defendant Airco the Storage Tanks and Related Equipment of Airco in the possession of such Person, or purchases or leases such Storage Tanks and Related Equipment from said defendant.

VII

(A) Sections [*10] VI(A), (B), (C) and (E) shall have no application to transactions with Persons who are Distributors or agents of such defendant, and nothing contained therein shall require such defendant to sell or lease Storage Tanks and Related Equipment to other Persons engaged in the sale or distribution of Carbon Dioxide on terms and conditions that such defendant offers Storage Tanks and Related Equipment to its own Distributors or agents.

(B) Nothing contained in Section VI shall be deemed to invalidate or prohibit provisions in leasing agreements with respect to Storage Tanks and Related Equipment to the effect that defendant Airco is to be indemnified or made harmless by the lessee of Storage Tanks and Related Equipment from any damages to the Storage Tanks and Related Equipment, and from any consequential damages sustained by said defendant, resulting directly or indirectly from the use in such Storage Tanks and Related Equipment of Carbon Dioxide obtained from sources other than defendant Airco which is not of like grade or quality to that of defendant Airco. Defendant Airco may provide that the burden of proving the question of like grade and quality shall be on the lessee.

VIII [*11]

Sections IV(F) and VIII(C) of the Final Judgment entered on March 7, 1932, in this Court in the case of United States v. The Liquid Carbonic Corporation, et al., Civil No. 9179, as applicable to defendant Airco, are hereby superseded and replaced by the provisions in this Final Judgment, and Section VII(D)(2) of the aforesaid Final Judgment is modified to permit a requirements contract for Carbon Dioxide with any jobber or Distributor which is not inconsistent with the provisions of Section VI(F) of this Final Judgment, but all other provisions of such Final Judgment shall remain in full force and effect in accordance with their terms.

This Final Judgment shall be construed as relating only to commerce within the United States, its territories and possessions.

For the purpose of securing compliance with this Final Judgment, duly authorized representatives of the Department of Justice shall, on written request by the Attorney General or the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, and on reasonable notice to defendant Airco at its principal office, be permitted, subject to any legally recognized privilege:

(A) Reasonable access during office hours [*12] to all the books, ledgers, accounts, correspondence, memoranda and other records and documents in the possession or under the control of such defendant relating to any of the matters covered in this Final Judgment; and

(B) Subject to the reasonable convenience of such defendant and without restraint or interference from such defendant to conduct interviews regarding any such matters with officers and employees of such defendant, who may have counsel present.

Upon the written request of the Attorney General, or the Assistant Attorney General in charge of the Antitrust Division, such defendant shall submit such written reports with respect to any of the matters covered in this Final Judgment as from time to time may be reasonably necessary tor the enforcement of this Final Judgment.

The provisions of Section V and VI of this Final Judgment shall not become effective until the entry of Final Judgments in this action, not subject to further review, against the remaining defendants herein.

XII

Jurisdiction is retained forme purpose of enabling any party consenting to this Final Judgment to apply to this Court at any time for such further orders and directions as may be necessary or appropriate for the construction or carrying out of this Final Judgment, for the modification or termination of any of the provisions herein, for the enforcement of compliance therewith and the punishment of violations thereof.

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